Wiretaps used for political gain, a media witch-hunt and an unlikely ‘fuck you’ to the culture of punishment. After Ranucci, Scarpinato: the M5S senator, a former magistrate, is discovering first-hand the damage caused by the media-judicial circus

The President of the Constitutional Court, speaking at Il Foglio’s ‘Festival of Optimism’, recalled the rulings on the Calderoli law and the law relating to the Renzi reform: “It was considered that the uncertainty being complained of constituted a legitimate interest in bringing proceedings, and I imagine a similar course of action will be taken with regard to the law that has just been passed.”

In the morning, the programmes on Rai 1 and Canale 5; at lunchtime, the talk show on Rai 2; in the late afternoon, La7; and on Fridays, in prime time, the sung Mass on ‘Quarto Grado’. The celebrant changes, but not the rite.

Having already been definitively convicted of breaching official secrecy in December 2024, the Court of Cassation has now made Davigo’s conviction final in respect of the charges that had been referred back for a new appeal hearing. The former public prosecutor has been given a (suspended) sentence of one year and three months.

The local executive committee has spoken out in solidarity with Santi Bologna, the investigating magistrate from Nissa, expressing the hope “that the debate on matters of public interest will take place without fuelling mistrust towards the judiciary”. A slap in the face for the M5S senator

Since March, after coming out in favour of the ‘Yes’ vote in the referendum on the justice system, the Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies has been the victim of an exceptionally severe and unusual media witch-hunt: he is not under investigation, but his reputation is being destroyed on the basis of criminally irrelevant documents leaked from an investigation conducted by Roman public prosecutors and an old Milanese inquiry